I must admit that I am pretty gutted today has eventually arrived

 

 

I always had a soft spot for my old LWB TT and I'd worked bloody hard getting it almost to where I wanted it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

then I made the fatal error of entrusting the old girl with a bunch of fookin' cowboys and that unfortunately was the beginning of the end :no:

 

 

 

after several failed attempts at making the best of a bad situation, the other month I finally had to face the sad reality that the old girl had smoked her last tyre

 

 

 

so last Friday I recieved a phonecall from the Long Haired General (the wife) saying that somebody had knocked on the door and asked if we would sell the shell

 

 

for a second I hoped that somebody was willing to take it on as a long term project but alas no....they wanted it for scrap value

 

 

cue this morning.......

 

 

 

 

 

I answer a knock at the door expecting to be met with scrapyard crew with either a low loader or a trailer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nope!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

that would be a young lad in his mid 20's who suffers severe anxiety attacks (no seriously!!!)

 

 

and an 85 year old man wearing a shirt and tie :blink:

 

 

 

and in the background......a transit van (and not even a big transit van!!)

 

 

 

 

 

here begins the Laurel and Hardy act for the next 7 hours......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me: "I'm telling you mate, it won't fit"

 

Old boy: "trust me"

 

 

 

 

 

Old boy: "Maybe a sledge hammer on the rear quarters will sort it..."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old boy: "It won't fit?"

 

 

Me: *Face Palm*

 

 

Time for the big guns!!

 

 

 

 

 

To get it to this stage literally required Laurel and Hardy to break every possible health and safety rule in the book...we're talking village idiot stylee sawing of branch that he's sat on and coming very, very close to cutting through the angle grinder cable on countless ocassions

 

Me: "Would you like some eye protection and some ear defence?"

 

 

Old boy: *Looking at me as if I'm strange "No"

 

 

Me: "Right you are....I'll be back in a minute, I'm just going to grab a carrier bag to put your fingers in once you've cut them off!"

 

 

*Meanwhile young lad is hiding in the cab having another anxiety attack because (his explaination) he'd had a bad experience with an angle grinder before...

Edited April 30, 201213 yr by jap.slapper

The old girl is then cut into quarters

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and there you have it...granted they had to make two trips but 1 x LWB zed in a not so LWB transit van

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a bit of elbow grease and that'll polish out I'm sure :tongue_smilie:

 

 

 

I've got some video clips to upload, but it'll take a while

 

 

 

gutted as I say, but fresh start......and I've got another driveway to play with now :thumbup:

Edited April 30, 201213 yr by jap.slapper

Jesus Christ that's mental haha. Although pretty sad at the same time. The black zed in the background is looking good mate.

Reminds me of Father Ted when he just tries to knock out a very tiny dent and says 'I nearly had it there' :clap:

 

Most amusing :thumbup1:

:lol::lol::lol::lol:

i would of loved to of been there for the entertainment value, but then i would of hated to of been there for laughing me ass off at them for 7 hours and making them feel right uncomfortable.

 

though not the first time ive seen a car shell cut up and loaded into the back of a transit van.

you could of kept the glass for me :(

*Meanwhile young lad is hiding in the cab having another anxiety attack because (his explaination) he'd had a bad experience with an angle grinder before...

 

This made me giggle. time to go to the next chapter mate.

crazy!!!! you could have sold that prop to tudor :whistling:

you could of kept the glass for me :(

 

 

Sorry if I'd known I would have mate

 

 

and just wanted to add, I've just had a set of your skirts and the fitment is absolutely spot on mate (better than the pucker Veilside skirts that were fitted, and I thought that they were really good!)

 

 

 

nooooooo .. could of done with the boot ...

nooooooo .. could of done with the boot ...

 

 

the boot went a few months back mate, this used to have the carbon boot that GibsterTT recently fitted

cracking story there mate!! Sad but funny too (if thats possible?) :)

no not the boot lid ...

 

the Boot its self .. i can see it in that van .. well whats left of it lol

hope the jippos gave you some money for that lot then!

hope the jippos gave you some money for that lot then!

 

 

Yeah got a couple of quid for it....in fact with the current zed prices I could probably go and buy myself another one on ebay!

Sorry if I'd known I would have mate

 

 

and just wanted to add, I've just had a set of your skirts and the fitment is absolutely spot on mate (better than the pucker Veilside skirts that were fitted, and I thought that they were really good!)

 

 

 

 

 

Cool glad you like them. is there any chance you could grab me a few good pics that i could use for me listings please mate :)

The farce hopefully made it a bit less painful to see the end of that particular project. But onwards and upwards, looks like the shorty is really taking shape. :thumbup1:

Cool glad you like them. is there any chance you could grab me a few good pics that i could use for me listings please mate :)

 

 

Yes mate, no probs

 

I'll get some pics together in the next few weeks after the decals have been fitted

I hate Gypos they should all be shot on sight

 

You should have scrapped the car yourself though!

 

You should have scrapped the car yourself though!

 

 

That was the intention but I know that I would have just kept putting it off

Bugger......id have had the diff if id known :(

Nice write up and pics mate:thumbup1: enjoyed that read.

Comedy! But what a shame,looked a good shell actually!

 

Obviously put up one last fight, its gutting for us as the currant owners but Imagine back in 199x when someone was waiting for that car to arrive from the dealership so excited, it was brand new! To look at it there would probably bring a tear, if I ever had a brand new car I think it would to me!

Comedy! But what a shame,looked a good shell actually!

 

Obviously put up one last fight, its gutting for us as the currant owners but Imagine back in 199x when someone was waiting for that car to arrive from the dealership so excited, it was brand new! To look at it there would probably bring a tear, if I ever had a brand new car I think it would to me!

 

 

Your right mate the shell was completely rust free

 

my son looked really gutted yesterday when he got back from school and realised what was going on, so I explained that a lot of the old car's parts had been transferred to the black SWB and what was left would be going to the big scrap yard in the sky....he thought for a second or two and then turned to his sister and explained that it was alright and that because some of the red cars parts were in the black one it's 'soul' would live on.....now that's deep for a 7 year old!

Classic mate, You should have asked the kid to tell you why he was so scared of the grinder. :lol: